site.btaVazrazhdane to Support CC-DB's Declaration for Exiting Political Crisis If Their Own Declaration Is Backed

Vazrazhdane will support the declaration of Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) on ending the political crisis if CC-DB back Vazrazhdane's declaration, reads a position released by the party's press centre on Tuesday. Vazrazhdane firmly backs the end of division and confrontation as a means to end the political crisis, and not having confrontation requires listening to the Bulgarian people and observation of democratic principles, the position reads further.

Vazrazhdane's declaration is about "affirming democratic principles of governance in the country and solving the crisis of the political process" in Bulgaria. The document contains seven points. 

Five of the points declare Vazrazhdane's will to work on and support for five referenda, namely on: keeping the Bulgarian lev as Bulgaria's only official currency or adopting the euro as such; Bulgaria's NATO membership; termination of the cooperation agreement with the USA whereby Bulgaria provides four military bases to US service persons free of charge; lifting of the sanctions against Russia and creation of a compensation fund for the Bulgarian entrepreneurs affected by them; suspension of the military aid for Ukraine and non-provision of such aid to other countries.

The remaining two points are for the formation of a negotiation team to re-negotiate the conditions for Bulgaria's EU membership with the participation of all parliamentary represented parties, and the adoption of an act on registration of foreign agents based on the US model (the Foreign Agents Registration Act, FARA), as a means to protect Bulgaria from hidden foreign influence.

On Monday, CC-DB proposed that the President delay by three months the handing of the second cabinet-forming mandate to their parliamentary group to allow them time to seek broad public support for a proposed declaration on resolving the political crisis. The declaration has been sent to to all MPs of the 50th National Assembly in the hopes of getting majority in Parliament to adopt the draft document, which contains a package of legal changes to enhance the fight against corruption.